It makes me wonder how come a company could still incur huge financial losses despite of implementation of the so-called bullet-proof good management practices such as key performance indexes, risk management policies, SWOT analysis, whistle-blowing, accountability and transparency and so on and so forth. The funny part is that nobody in the company seemed to be aware of the financial implications until the company dropped a bombshell and out of the sudden, cost overruns amounting to billions of dollars gives us a real shock of life by the time it is already irreparable.
Often I attend our company’s townhall meeting seeing the big bosses presenting the quarterly result of their divisions and everything seemed so rosy and everyone seemed to be talking about how well the company is generating good profit. Some say as a leader you must know how to talk, how to talk convincingly. I guess all of the bosses know how to talk, or to be more specific; how to talk to impress rather than talking the real facts and consequences, good and bad alike.
That’s how it goes, if the bosses are all the while thinking and speaking positively and sweeping all the negativities into the carpets one of these days the so-called positive attitude will backfire. Very often in a meeting when we talk about negative things or something that opposed to the view of the bosses, the first thing you get is your boss will shoot you down and label you as negative. To them, everything is Malaysia Boleh, everything can be done despite knowing that there are shortcomings or limitations.
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